Walk Away(Fairytail AU)

Chapter 3

Natsu

Natsu took a rather... assertive method to get answers out of her. His tall frame leaning forward as he done the cliché known as 'pinning-to-wall-approach'.

He was struggling to keep a safe distance away from her dirty self. He was ready to get answers, but he wasn't ready to get mud stains on his already reeking clothes. He would just have to use his flames to heat his body enough to rid his clothes of the smell of alcohol. He supposed he would smell like his usual scent — smoke.

"Are you really not going to tell me who you are and what you're doing in my house?" he questioned. She averted eye contact, which irritated him further. He would've carried out his earlier threat if not for one, painful, reason. In a flash, the mysterious blonde had kicked him where the sun does not shine with great force. Immortal or not, he was hit and fell to the ground. It hurt. The pain was real! Why did girls feel the need to use such a weak spot against them!? A man wouldn't dare do this to another as they knew how painful it was.

He was too distracted by the pain to notice that the girl had run to the door — her belongings in hand. Unfortunately, before he could recover properly, she had been out the door. Natsu pathetically reached out with a trembling hand, "Wait... where do you think... you're going." 

He didn't know which was worse. Transportation or this. He really couldn't tell at this point. The salmon-pink haired male reached up to put a hand on the wall. With much struggle, he had managed to stand up. To say he was angry was an understatement. His frustration consumed his actions as he screamed at the top of his lungs, albeit it had taken everything in him to not spit out fire — quite literally. He would have chased after her, but he had a small bit of sense. Time would go on without him, but he couldn't allow that. There was a mission to complete and once he accepted a request, he made sure it was done. Finding that blonde would be his second goal. 

'Just the thought of her irritates me!'

Natsu gathered up his things quickly, but he felt like he was missing something. What was it? Food? No, he had that. The bag consisted of mostly that, so what was he missing?

"Natsu!" cried a familiar voice. That was the moment he realized: "Happy?! Where have you been?"

The little blue ball of fur flew his way into Natsu's chest and his small paws reached out to hug him. The cat had been crying and whining over something about kicking him out...? He ignored the weird explanation and reassured the poor exceed that he had done no such thing. Happy, the talking cat, sniffed. "Oh." 

"Listen, buddy. I need you to help me with a mission. Can you help me?" Natsu, flushing away all bitter feelings prior to his friend's arrival, smiled. If there was one way to make the guy smile his rarely shown smile, it was his small friend Happy. He was like a brother and a child to Natsu. Odd, but true. Happy lifted his right paw, "Aye!"

"I knew I could count on you," he praised before explaining the mission. "I need to track down this girl. Short blonde hair, wears formal dresses and 'girly'." he had repeated the information he knew as he crossed his arms. He couldn't remember anything else, so he assumed that was all they were going with. In the midst of trying to squeeze any other information out of his brain, he heard muffled laughter. A vein threatened to pop as he snapped his head towards his partner. "Hey, I'm trying to think here!" he snapped. 

This only urged Happy to laugh, and between laughter, he spoke: "Hey, Natsu. You could've just said you wanted to find a wife and not disguise it as a mission. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We all get lonely sometimes." 

"That's not it at all!" he denied angrily. "Lonely," Happy repeated before snickering. The pink haired fire wizard clicked his tongue and ignored his antics. "Whatever, let's just go to Hargeon or something, since that's the ideal place to go and escape Fiore," he grumbled. The two left, having no other place to go by.